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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > William Allen Simpson > Sent: March 6, 2001 3:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > > completely arbitrary and capricious process, > > Really? In the legal sense? What proof do you offer? > > > > perhaps you could point to > > some of the many successes of ICANN as an organization? > > The public participation around the world has far outstripped anything > I'd ever expected. On that basis alone, it's a success. > > Yes, I wish that things were moving faster. I wish that the fully > envisioned board had been selected. I wish that there was more > sunshine. But, I realise that not every citizen on the planet has > the same adversarial bent in their civilization, and that some even > consider collegial closed meetings more civilized! > > We've added some good people in the elections, and I have high hopes. I apologize for bringing this whole thing on NANOG, but I do have some objections to your comments. Have you looked at the .org situation (with the new proposed VeriSign agreement and everything) lately? http://forum.icann.org/nsi2001 is full of angry .org domain owners who have been told nothing officially by ICANN except some vague segments of press releases and proposed agreements that many choose to interpret as indicating that their domains will be taken away because they don't match some "arbitrary and capricious" requirements, to use the words of the poster you're replying to. Whether this is ICANN's real intention or not remains to be seen, but that's what is being assumed for now. I don't have high hopes, unlike you; I fail to see how ICANN can totally ignore their own forum (except to post one vague little thing saying nothing a long time ago) filled with hundreds of angry people where all it would take is a simple "No, our new rules will only apply to new .org domains" to appease the masses. The public is participating, absolutely, but what I see it particupating in is a rant-fest of angry .org owners, not a valuable dialog with ICANN that could lead somewhere constructive. Please tell me how to put my hopes on an elevator or a plane, because currently they're rather low, and will remain that way until ICANN starts being a little more forthcoming. Vivien NOTE: I am speaking on my own behalf, not on behalf of the organization mentioned in my signature, for which I am a volunteer, even though dyndns.org is a .org, obviously, and non-profit. -- Vivien M. [email protected] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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